LAST WIGHT'S TELEGRAMS

Globe, Volume IX, Issue 1350, 12 June 1878, Page 2

LAST WIGHT'S TELEGRAMS

[BY SUBMAEINE CABLE.] [EBtTTBE'O TBLEGBAMS TO THB PEESB AGENCY.] AUSTRALIAN. Melboubjte, June 11. The Underwriters' Association, under date London, June 7th, report the arrival of the Hurunui from Wellington, Canterbury from Port Chalmers, and Ceorgetta at New York from Auckland. [Per Claud Hamilton via Bluff.] Melboubne, June 5. Dr. Macartney, who has bad a chequered career as clergyman, barrister, Fiji planter, legislator, and temperance lecturer, died from poison on Sunday, thus creating a vacancy for South G-ippsland. An analysis of his stomach is to be made before an inquest can be held. The Melbourne Cup entries number 108. This is fewer than last year, but the quality is better worthy of notice. Only one aged horse is in the list, Mr L. Walker has two Traducer colts, which appear to hail from New Zealand.

Miss Amy Serwin, the Tasmanian prima donna, made a great success with the Italian Opera Company. Basiness is dull. Oats scarce and wanted. Late advices from Mauritius state that prices advanced 10s to Ifcs par ton for whites.

INTEEPEOVINCIAL.

[PES PBBSB AGENCY.] Pate a, June 11. The sale of a block of 200,000 acres of land beyond the confiscated boundary, and between the Waitotara and Whenuakura rivers, was negotiated by Mr Williams for William Cowen, of Garlyle, yesterday. The Ngaruia tribe are the sellers. The present purchasers have given the Government the refusal of the land. The Natives desire the transaction known all over the colony. Large reserves will be set aside, and the land will eventually be cut up for small farms, but must first go through the Court. Wellington,' June 11. Information has been received that Captain Mair reports to the Government that a party of Ngatawikau have left Eotorua armed, to occupy two blockp of land at Maketu, which some other Natives are trying to put through the Court and to which the Ngatawikau are objectorg. A lighthouse keeper named McQ-owan, at the Brothers' Lighthouse, met with a painful accident at the lighthouse last Friday morning by slipping down a steeple ladder and breaking his thigh. The poor fellow had to climb up two flights of ladders to enable him to signal to the other keepers at the dwellinghouse. Last August McQ-owan had his leg broken in the same place. Oamaett, June 11. Twenty-gir dogs are nominated for the President's Meeting. Donepin, June 11. The annual report of the'Education Board of Otago is just published. It shows that there were 173 public schools in this district in 1877, and that the average attendance was 11,749. The Education Eeserves yielded £5263 last year. [PBOM THE COBBESPONDENT OP THE PBES9.] Timabxj, June 11. The following is the criminal calendar for the Supreme Couit to-morrow: —Elizabeth Arnold, larceny; Henry Smith, larceny; Edward Francis Howard Fox, horse-stealing ; John Thomas Pain, embezzlement (two indictments) ; William Corlett, forgery and uttering; Eichard Bell, sheep-stealing (four indictments) ; John Patrick Mehan, receiving stolen goods ; John Higgins Jenkins, forgery and uttering (two indictments) ; David McCracken, horse-stealing; Margaret Wilson, murder; Alexander Bell, shooting with intent to murder; Samuel Armitage, embezzlement ; John Costello, horse-stealing; Isabella Eitchie Dick, larceny; Donald McKay, arson ; Mary Linhan, larceny ; Eichard Masley, larceny ; Patrick O'Brien, larceny ; John Abbotsford Craig, obtaining money by fatee pretences. All the civil cases but three have been settled.